Recruiting

Social Skills Intervention

Sponsor:

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Code:

NCT06184243

Conditions

Development Delay

Social Skills

Parents

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 3+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Parent Training

Video Modeling

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about how parent training can be used to teach a social skills intervention for their young child with developmental delays. Video modeling is a type of technology based intervention that teaches new skills using videos of someone acting out the behavior. The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • How well do the parent training procedures teach parents all the steps for using video modeling as a social skills intervention?
  • Do the children with developmental delays play and communicate more with their parents after the parent uses video modeling as a social skills intervention?

Parent participants will be asked to participate in 3 interviews 30 min to 1 hour each, 2 in-home sessions 1 ½ to 2 hours each, 30 min Zoom sessions 2-3 times per week for 2-5 months

Child participants will participate in 2 in-home sessions 1 ½ to 2 hours each and 30 min Zoom sessions 2-3 times per week for 2-5 months

The time commitment is in ideal conditions, but will be impacted by other participants and parent schedules. The family will be committing to approximately 2-5 hours per week for 2-5 months. Sessions may occur as few as 0 or as many as 5 times per week.

The hypothesis is that the parent training will teach parents all the steps to use video modeling intervention in their home with their young child with a disability. The second hypothesis is that the child with a disability will learn new social skills to play and communicate better in their home with their parent after watching the video models.

Conditions

Development Delay

Social Skills

Parents

Study ID

NCT06184243

Start date

Dec, 2023

Status verified date

Dec, 2023

Completion date

Jun, 2024

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Apr, 2024

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 3+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria

Parent

  • English speaking
  • Must to participate in in-home parent training, willing to participate in video interviews, willing to participate in video recorded play sessions
  • Only one parent in the home will participate
  • At least 18 years old and able to consent to participate in study

Child

  • between the ages 3 and 5.5
  • have a developmental delay as defined by Individuals with Disability Education Act
  • demonstrate a need for social skills intervention with ASQ:SE-2 scoring below cutoff or in the monitoring zone.
  • shows the ability to use 1 to 2-word phrases
  • imitates 10 actions and 10 words
  • attends to a video for 3 minutes

Exclusion criteria

  • English is not a primary language spoken at home
  • the home is unsafe (Defined as violence witnessed in the home, drug or alcohol use while researcher is in the home, and non-service animals in the intervention area.)
  • the child does not display minimum levels of language (e.g., 1 to 2 word phrases), imitation (e.g., 10 gestures 10 words) and/or attention (e.g., 3 minutes attending to a screen)
  • the child does not show social skills delays ASQ:SE-2 scoring above the cutoff.

Study Design

Enrollment

14 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Parent-Implemented Video Modeling

Parent intervention teaches the skills to implement video modeling intervention for their young child with a developmental delay. Video modeling intervention teaches the young child new play and conversation skills.

Interventions

Parent Training

Parent training will cover the topic of creating social skills, goal setting, creating a video model, how to implement the video model intervention, and the parent-child interaction procedures during play. Parents will learn the steps in the fidelity checklist and demonstrate the steps at 90% proficiency by the end of the training. Parent coaching will continue before and after child intervention sessions.

Video Modeling

The child will be recorded for a video model engaging in play at their home. The videos will be created with the parent and researcher in the home. A video using the same materials in the same location will be created depicting the child in a play scenario. The video will be two-to-three minutes in length. Each child will receive at least three sessions of intervention and no more than five sessions of intervention per week.

Primary outcome measure

  • Parent: Implementation Fidelity [ Time Frame: Implementation fidelity data will be collected for 5 minutes during a session, 2-3 times per week for 2 to 5 months in ideal conditions. To adjust for parent schedules and commitments, as few as 0 to as many as 5 sessions per week may be conducted. ]
  • Child: Scripted Play Actions [ Time Frame: Scripted play action data will be collected for 5 minutes during a session, 2-3 times per week for 2 to 5 months in ideal conditions. To adjust for parent schedules and commitments, as few as 0 to as many as 5 sessions per week may be conducted. ]
  • Child: Unscripted Play Actions [ Time Frame: Unscripted play action data will be collected for 5 minutes during a session, 2-3 times per week for 2 to 5 months in ideal conditions. To adjust for parent schedules and commitments, as few as 0 to as many as 5 sessions per week may be conducted. ]
  • Child: Scripted Vocalizations [ Time Frame: Scripted vocalization data will be collected for 5 minutes during a session, 2-3 times per week for 2 to 5 months in ideal conditions. To adjust for parent schedules and commitments, as few as 0 to as many as 5 sessions per week may be conducted. ]
  • Child: Unscripted Vocalizations [ Time Frame: Unscripted vocalization data will be collected for 5 minutes during a session, 2-3 times per week for 2 to 5 months in ideal conditions. To adjust for parent schedules and commitments, as few as 0 to as many as 5 sessions per week may be conducted. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Joseph Morgan, PhD

702-895-3329joseph.morgan@unlv.edu

Locations

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Recruiting

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89154

Contacts

Joseph Morgan, PhD

702-895-3329joseph.morgan@unlv.edu

More Information

Sponsor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Last update posted

Dec 28, 2023

Last verified

Dec, 2023

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Nevada, Las Vegas on 2023-12-28.